Company Description
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic ecosystem, developing unique financial products, including Afterpay/Clearpay, to provide a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our 47 million monthly active customers. We want to redefine the world's relationship with money to make it more relatable, instantly available, and universally accessible.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees working globally across office and remote locations, with a culture geared toward innovation, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Cash App operates. No matter the location, we tailor our experience to ensure our employees are creative, productive, and happy.
Check out our locations, benefits, and more at cash.app/careers.
Job Description
The Cash Observability team is a foundational team that builds out the tools, services and infrastructure that engineers at Cash trust in order to understand the behaviors and performance of the critical services, data stores and infrastructure that power Cash App.
The team is in a new stage of development where they are beginning to expand their scope beyond managing Observability tooling into new, related domains. You'll work with the team and other functions across the company to help shape the future of the team while continuing to ensure developers across Cash can quickly ship high quality, reliable features.
We're a distributed team of infrastructure engineers spread across North America, and we work directly with other engineers across the globe who rely on the systems that we build.
In this role you will:
- Develop and own best practices for monitoring services and distributed systems at scale
- Be actively involved in setting strategic direction and implementing an expanding roadmap
- Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards
- Evolve and improve existing backend systems to meet product iteration velocity while maintaining a high quality bar
- Work directly with engineers across the company to provide support and guidance in utilizing observability tools and systems
- Periodically be on-call for critical Observability systems
Qualifications
You have:
- 3-5 years of software development or equivalent experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including effective remote collaboration skills with distributed teams
- A strong desire to collaborate with, learn from, and mentor others
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience working with container schedulers and runtimes
Technologies we use and teach:
- Languages: Go, Java, Kotlin
- Other: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Vector
Even if you don't feel that you meet all of the preferred qualifications, we still encourage you to apply! Preferred qualifications are just that - preferences; we know that great candidates might not meet every listed qualification. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and we're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
Qualifications
You have:
- 3-5 years of software development or equivalent experience
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including effective remote collaboration skills with distributed teams
- A strong desire to collaborate with, learn from, and mentor others
- Experience working with cloud infrastructure
- Experience with infrastructure as code
- Experience working with container schedulers and runtimes
Technologies we use and teach:
- Languages: Go, Java, Kotlin
- Other: AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Datadog, Vector
Even if you don't feel that you meet all of the preferred qualifications, we still encourage you to apply! Preferred qualifications are just that - preferences; we know that great candidates might not meet every listed qualification. We believe that diversity drives innovation, and we're committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives and skills.
What We Do
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy.
Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.
Why Work With Us
Across our ecosystem, we’re working to help our diverse audiences — sellers, individuals, artists, fans, developers, and all the people in between — overcome barriers to access the economy.
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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.
Most employees can join Block in an office location, from home, or with a mix of both. We create work spaces and experiences that help individuals and teams to be their most creative and collaborative.